fshusband ([info]fshusband) wrote,
@ 2008-05-15 09:29:00
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If you never work, are you still a worker?
These are the strikes planned for today:

The “Pan-Hellenic Laborers’ Fighting Front” (PAME) will sponsor a gathering at Omonia square 12:30 hrs.
The “General Confederation of Greek Workers” (GSEE) will sponsor a gathering at Kanigos square at 12:30 hrs.
The “Civil Servants Federation” (ADEDY) will sponsor a gathering at Korai square at 12:30 hrs.
The "Communist party of Greece" (KKE) will sponsor a gathering at Syntagma square at 20:30 hrs.
The employees of banks (National, Alpha, Eurobank, Probank HSBC, Citibank, American Express and Bank of Cyprus), O.T.E.,
and ports will be on a 24 hrs strike.
The employees of the Olympic Airways, Public Power Company (D.E.H), Water Company (EY.DAP),
and post offices will be on a work stoppage from 12:00 – 15:00 hrs.

The Pan-Hellenic Laborers' Fighting Front ("pame" means "Let's go") makes me think of that scene from Life of Brian - "Are you the Laborers' Fighting Front of the Pan-Hellenes?"
"Sod off! We're the Pan-Hellenic Laborers' Fighting Front. Sodding Laborers' Fighting Front of the Pan-Hellenes. [shouting toward a small cluster of people] Wankers!"

In other news, [info]annesblog claims to have seen our car in the parking lot at work. I'll believe it when my eyes doth see it. The gas truckers' strike is over, so the gas stations have gas now, but we can't get subsidized gas yet, so we'll have to pay 1.15-1.20 euro/liter, which means it'll cost us about 50 liters x 1.15 = 57.50 euro x 1.58 = $90.85 to fill up our 13-gallon tank. 90.85/13=$6.98 a gallon. That's nice. Subsidized gas is only $1.70 or so per liter, so it would only cost us $85 if we had any subsidized gas. I am so glad we have a 4-cylinder, 30 miles to the gallon car.



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[info]expandonthat
2008-05-15 11:21 am UTC (link)
Remember when I stood up on the counter of the kiosk at Starbucks with that cardboard sign that read "UNION." I tried to mount a strike too, but it never panned out...

After that I gave up on collective bargaining and just went back to whining...

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[info]fshusband
2008-05-15 11:59 am UTC (link)
Aaaaaahhhhhh my young apprentice, if you had seriously attempted to unionize, the union would have told you that you were better off without them. You would have lost benefits, not seen a significant increase in salary and had the bonus of paying your union dues, thus seeing an actual decrease in salary. That's what they told the idiot in NY who wanted to unionize.

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[info]expandonthat
2008-05-16 02:20 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, but I coulda been even sassier to those rich bitches in the leopard skin dresses with the little dog in their handbags. When they accosted me in outrage with, "How dare you..." I could say, "I'm Union lady!"

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(Anonymous)
2008-05-18 07:20 am UTC (link)
It's a funny thing that I had none of the trouble in that location that so many others report having. Maybe I'm just blind to it, but I always felt that treating each person, whether a cook from the Daily Grill or a stylist from Salon Bleu or Dave Matthews or one of the Arabs on a shopping visit or one of the gazillions of BMW SUV driving soccer moms, as a person forced them to treat me the same. Or maybe I was just blind to it.

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[info]fshusband
2008-05-18 07:22 am UTC (link)
boy am I an idiot...that anonymous person was me.

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